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i look at him and i am home

he doesn't realize that when the light hits him just right,

his eyes turn to honey and i am stuck on him

like the amber sunsets over estes park, the sun melting into the mountains

i melt for him, still

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“what we need is sophisticated religious people debating sophisticated secular humanists.”

- philip kitcher, iaitv

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Jeffrey Eugenides, from Middlesex

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Gioacchino Pagliei (Italian, 1852-1896)   

The Naiads, 1881

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I don't want to have to bounce between several different social media platforms I wouldn't even use to build some semblance of an audience, I don't want to have to start a patreon for other projects, I don't want to make a personal discord for exclusive access, I don't want to dress as my characters for quirky tiktoks, or have to become a internet personality in my own right to make the algorithm notice, I don't want to have to think of the aesthetics of my fucking bookshelves in order to be taken seriously as a reader/writer, I don't want to have to market my novel in ways I would loathe if I were being introduced in the same way, I don't want spend so much time grappling for mere seconds of someone's distracted, half-hearted attention. I don't want this feeling like I have to write generic, romance-focused fiction, or tone down my work in order to fit into this fast-paced, throw-away hellscape of the current literary world

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Beatrice by Fedir Krychevsky (1911)

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“The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of making life more bearable. Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow, for heaven’s sake. Sing in the shower. Dance to the radio. Tell stories. Write a poem to a friend, even a lousy poem. Do it as well as you possible can. You will get an enormous reward. You will have created something.”

— Kurt Vonnegut, A Man Without a Country

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to nietzsche, philosophers were being disingenuous, as they claimed to present the unbiased and indisputable truth, but all they really did was dress up their own prejudices and biases as rational arguments. this is what nietzsche meant when he claimed that every philosophy is but an autobiography of the person who created it.

beyond good and evil - friedrich nietzsche

alt txt: “every great philosophy is an unconscious autobiography”

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Angelina Jolie for Vanity Fair Magazine (2006)

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I suck at texting just come get high with me

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“The worst enemy you can meet will always be yourself; you ambush yourself in caverns and forests.

You solitary one, you go the way to yourself! And your way leads you past yourself and your seven devils!

You will be a heretic to yourself, and a sorcerer and a soothsayer, and a fool, and a doubter, and a reprobate, and a villain.

You must be ready to burn yourself in your own flame; how could you rise anew if you have not first become ashes!

You solitary one, you go the way of the creator: you will create a god for yourself out of your seven devils!

You solitary one, you go the way of the lover: you love yourself, and on that account you despise yourself, as only the lover can despise.

The lover wants to create because he despises! What does he know of love who has not despised that which he loved!

With your love and with your creating go into your solitude, my brother; only much later will justice limp after you.

With my tears, go into your solitude, my brother. I love him who seeks to create beyond himself, and thus perishes.

Thus spoke Zarathustra.”

- Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra

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Thomas Lélu

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Vivienne Westwood - "Animal Toe" shoes

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— CJ Hauser

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📍brooklyn, nyc

shot on film from my bday party

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show me how ‘23 by Dayja Jay (via ig)